More offline fun with Thunderbird

Google Reader no longer works offline; they have dumped Gears but HTML5 is not yet up to speed.

Liferea looked perfect as it syncs with Reader but no longer can auth with google.

Thunderbird does a decent job even though it's not mentioned. Like all the other solutions I've tried it doesn't download the target page, only the text in the RSS itself. No pics or other attachments.

Usage:

1. export RSS list from Reader
2. import into Thunderbird
3. when going offline it automagically updates feed list
4. read offline later; if I want to follow links or comment on something I email the article to myself using the Thunderbird Forward menu button and read it later.

Works fine.

Thunderbird is turning out to be a pretty good solution for folks too cheap/frugal to buy a mobile data connection.

Churchmouse indicator: magazine subscriptions

Victims of the the macro (and my micro) downturn -- magazine subscriptions not renewed:

The Week - spectacularly good meta-magazine.
Cycle World
Motorcylist
Motor Cycle News
Handguns
Zymurgy
Brew Your Own
Autoweek
and another one I can't remember right now. Got them all on cheap eBay subs a few years back. Most were $5-7/yr.

The Richardson library has mags for 25c each, and I've been picking some up that way. I particularly like the Economist when I can get them that way. Mags were 10c at the RPL a couple of years ago.